Environmental Monitoring Group (EMG) is a non-profit organisation based in Cape Town, South Africa.

We believe that fairness and justice must be at the heart of any effort to conserve and protect the natural environment, which sustains life on Earth. We aim to facilitate processes that lead to healthier, more respectful relationships with each other and the environment.

Society’s impact on the environment is a political act. Decisions about how people use natural resources are usually made by the powerful few for their own benefit, while negative impacts are felt largely by the poor and marginalised. These power imbalances are bad for our society and for the environment.

 EMG believes that a strong civil society is necessary for any social, political or economic change. The strength of civil society is not dependent on its engagement with a particular issue, but on its ability to learn, mobilise, network, analyse power dynamics and embody and practice the very values it advocates.